Maduro on New York Times article: "We already knew about the conspiracy"

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The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, delivered statements on Tuesday at a press conference from the Miraflores Palace. During the round of questions, journalists from the New York Times inquired about the article published a few days ago reporting on a meeting between the military and members of the US government to intervene in Venezuela. "Of course we knew about the conspiracy, if the one who discovered the conspiracy was the Bolivarian government that I preside over, who discovered the conspiracy, the conspirators and captured them and put them in jail was the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the intelligence agencies," he said. Mature.

He asserted that during his speeches of this year's presidential campaign he made denunciations and gave clues about the conspiracy. He also added that the intelligence service unveiled and captured a first group "that was being financed from Colombia and had held meetings with the envoys of the government of the United States." "The objective of them was in March to make a military disturbance, an attempt, the day that the date of the presidential elections was announced," he said. He reported that the second group captured them in the middle of the electoral campaign and the third group was captured by Fanb officers and active officers reported them. "I denounced him but in the international press (...) they dismissed my complaint," he said.

The president pointed to Colonel Oswaldo Valentín García Palomo as "responsible for meetings of US officials with some retired Venezuelan military to try to give a military coup." "This is the financier that coordinated from Colombia," he complained.

In addition, he asked international justice and Interpol for his capture "because he is also involved in the attempted assassination attempt on August 4". Likewise, he accused Osman Alexis Delgado Tabosky of being the financier of the groups. "He knows enough because he participated in all the links of these meetings to try to overthrow my government, kidnap me and kill me," he said. Maduro said that "the conspiracy is permanent" and said that they had "a lot of intelligence information from another general who moves through the Caribbean." "He moves between Miami and the Dominican Republic and says he will give a coup d'etat in Venezuela in October, he sings it to the four winds and speaks on the phone: retired general Francisco Baez," he denounced. On this, he guaranteed that "someday they would capture him" and promised that they would continue reporting.

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